Lucien Baudens

Lucien Baudens

Jean-Baptiste Lucien Baudens (born April 3, 1804 in Aire-sur-la-Lys , † December 27, 1857 in Paris ) was a French surgeon.

Life

Baudens studied medicine in the Service de santé des armées, at the University of Strasbourg and at the military hospital Val-de-Grâce and received his doctorate in Paris in 1829. He then worked as a military doctor in the campaign for the conquest of Algeria of 1830. He founded a military hospital in Algiers, which was also a teaching hospital, and was chief surgeon there. In 1838 he was first in Lille and then at the military hospital Val-de-Grâce, where in 1843 he became head of the clinic and professor. In 1851 he became General Inspector of the Service de santé des armées.

As a military surgeon, he advocated conservative surgery and the preservation of as many body parts and functions as possible. He was one of the first to describe the wiring for broken jaws. In 1853 he lectured at the French Academy of Sciences on the benefits of chloroform for anesthesia during operations. In 1855 he inspected the French system of wound care in the Crimean War . Chloroform was already used there on a large scale. He fell ill with typhus himself and died of it after returning to Paris. He never got around to summarizing his experiences as a military doctor in writing.

Baudens developed new methods for foot amputation and shoulder resection. He performed successful operations on abdominal injuries with irrigation of the peritoneum and intestinal sutures and thoracic operations by suctioning the blood from the pleural cavity and pleural suture. For bladder injuries he performed cystostomy through the abdominal wall (suprapubic) and he performed joint resections.

In 1831 he became a knight and in 1835 an officer of the Legion of Honor .

literature

• Christoph Weißer, article by Baudens in Gerabek a. a. (Ed.), Encyclopedia Medical History, Volume 1, De Gruyter 2007, p. 154

Web links

• Entry in the French National Library